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I have an iPhone 6 Plus and it's perfect for me. I had to pay full price when it came out but that was so Verizon couldn't take me off their old school unlimited plan. True unlimited. For me to upgrade...my 6 would have to turn into a brick or Apple would really have to dazzle me. They haven't so far.

Originally Posted by Mr. Raceboy

I'm a lot more worried about the commies running DC than I am about commies half way around the world.

I have an iPhone 6 Plus and it's perfect for me. I had to pay full price when it came out but that was so Verizon couldn't take me off their old school unlimited plan. True unlimited. For me to upgrade...my 6 would have to turn into a brick or Apple would really have to dazzle me. They haven't so far.

I'm on the same Verizon plan.

Stephen (has been buying no-contract Motorola phones for years to stay on the old plan.)

So Apple, the company on Earth that is least wiling to replace a broken screen for you, wants to debut a new phone, the primary feature of which is the elimination of that part of the phone that offers some token defense of the screen?

So Apple, the company on Earth that is least wiling to replace a broken screen for you, wants to debut a new phone, the primary feature of which is the elimination of that part of the phone that offers some token defense of the screen?

Pete (thinks that's just brilliant)

I just learned over the weekend that the phones are backed with glass. I couldn't believe it when Jen told me that. The best part is that the glass backing is more expensive to fix than the screen! To replace the back glass, the whole phone must be disassembled.

They built a phone out of glass.

The iPhone 8 and 8 Plus have glass backs that, if smashed, cost more to replace than the screen.

The new plates, which bring glass to the back of Apple smartphones for the first time in four years, have been installed to enable wireless charging, but also introduce a new point of failure.

The metal reinforcement of the glass back panel represents part of Apple’s durability efforts. A teardown of the iPhone 8 by repair site iFixit reveals that beneath the glass is a metal sheet that has a hole in its centre to make space for the wireless charging coil. That metal sheet is stuck to the glass panel by “lots” of glue, according to iFixit, which leads the repairers to conclude that while “the durability of the glass back remains to be seen … replacements are likely to be very difficult”.

That means a third-party repair of the glass panel is either going to be very difficult or very expensive, even compared to the screen. Apple’s own AppleCare+ for the iPhone 8, which costs £129, covers up to two damage repairs for two years. For the screen an excess of £25 is due, but repairs to the glass on the back of are only covered under the “other damage” part of the plan. According to AppleInsider, this costs £79 each time, making the back panel more than three times as expensive as the screen.